Three Stooges
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1. Malice in the Palace (1949)
16 min | Comedy, Short
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent
Votes: 1,098
2. Hold That Lion! (1947)
17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are tricked out of their inheritance by Icabod Slipp, a crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the train.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Kenneth MacDonald
Votes: 573
3. Woman Haters (1934)
G | 19 min | Comedy, Musical, Short
The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.
Director: Archie Gottler | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Marjorie White
Votes: 1,177
4. Half-Wits Holiday (1947)
Approved | 18 min | Comedy, Short
A professor seeks to prove his theories about environment versus heredity by turning three boorish plumbers into gentlemen.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Vernon Dent
Votes: 643
5. Boobs in Arms (1940)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, War
The stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers. In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Richard Fiske
Votes: 596
6. How High Is Up? (1940)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bruce Bennett
Votes: 555
7. Gents Without Cents (1944)
Approved | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Music
The stooges are three small time actors looking for a job. They meet three girl dancers in the situation and get a small part in a big producers show at the shipyard. When the rest of the ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lindsay Bourquin
Votes: 646
8. Cookoo Cavaliers (1940)
18 min | Short, Comedy
The stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are some chorus girls from a local night club... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Appleby
Votes: 515
9. No Census, No Feeling (1940)
TV-G | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a bridge game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bruce Bennett
Votes: 643
10. From Nurse to Worse (1940)
Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy
The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Appleby
Votes: 541
11. Nutty But Nice (1940)
18 min | Comedy, Short
Three bumbling waiters try to help a clinically depressed little girl by locating her kidnapped father.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lynton Brent
Votes: 510
12. A Plumbing We Will Go (1940)
TV-G | 18 min | Comedy, Short
To escape the police, the Stooges pose as plumbers contracted to fix a mansion's plumbing, which inevitably causes destructive chaos.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Wilson Benge
Votes: 1,200
13. You Nazty Spy! (1940)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, War
In a country, munitions manufacturers maneuver a wallpaper hanger to become dictator with his compatriots as his personal staff.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Don Beddoe
Votes: 1,133
14. Three Sappy People (1939)
18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires them to treat his impetuous young wife who is always running of for... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lorna Gray
Votes: 639
15. Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939)
Approved | 18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are tramps looking for handouts. Although the boys are down and out, Curly seems to get everything he wishes for. After some trouble with a farmer, the boys come across an ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Comingore
Votes: 658
16. Calling All Curs (1939)
G | 18 min | Short, Comedy
The stooges run a pet hospital and get an important patient, Garcon, a rich ladies poodle. When dognappers posing as reporters steal the poodle, the boys are in a tough spot. First they try... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Beatrice Blinn
Votes: 563
17. Saved by the Belle (1939)
18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a tropical country prone to earthquakes. Having no luck selling fur coats to the natives they are arrested when they receive a ... See full summary »
Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, LeRoy Mason
Votes: 517
18. A Ducking They Did Go (1939)
G | 17 min | Comedy, Short
Con men hire the Stooges to sell memberships to a phony duck hunting club.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lynton Brent
Votes: 618
19. We Want Our Mummy (1939)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rutentuten for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the mummy's tomb where they are harassed by some criminals ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dick Curtis
Votes: 643
20. Mutts to You (1938)
Approved | 18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a doorstep and, thinking it to be abandoned, take it home. When they read in the paper the baby is believed to have been kidnapped, ... See full summary »
Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bess Flowers
Votes: 539
21. Three Little Sew and Sews (1939)
TV-G | 19 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Phyllis Barry
Votes: 494
22. Flat Foot Stooges (1938)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are firemen at a station that still uses horses to pull the engines. A salesman who wants to sell the chief some modern equipment plants gun powder in one of the engines. The ... See full summary »
Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dick Curtis
Votes: 531
23. Three Missing Links (1938)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
The stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After wrecking the bosses office, they get jobs as actors in an African movie. Curly plays a gorilla and Moe and Larry are primitive ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Monte Collins
Votes: 547
24. Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938)
Not Rated | 18 min | Comedy, Short
Three bumbling gas station attendants are mistaken for college professors arriving from Germany to teach at a prestigious women's college.
Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Samuel Adams
Votes: 940
25. Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (1938)
Not Rated | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically wreck, running up quite ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bobby Burns
Votes: 587
26. Tassels in the Air (1938)
Not Rated | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are janitors in an office building. They stencil the wrong names on all the offices, causing a rich lady to mistakes Moe for "Omay", a famous decorator (the real Omay gets "... See full summary »
Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Gertrude Astor
Votes: 576
27. Wee Wee Monsieur (1938)
Passed | 18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up joining the French Foreign Legion. Posted to the desert, their ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Eugene Borden
Votes: 547
28. Playing the Ponies (1937)
Passed | 15 min | Short, Comedy, Sport
The stooges are cheated into trading their restaurant for Thunderbolt, a washed-up race horse, and enter the horse racing industry. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt some chili pepperinos, he ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 557
29. Cash and Carry (1937)
Not Rated | 18 min | Comedy, Short
The Stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their dumpyard shack. To raise money to pay for the little boy's operation, they buy a phony treasure map from two con men. Thinking... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Sonny Bupp
Votes: 597
30. The Big Idea (1934)
Passed | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Ted Healy is the proprietor of the "Big Idea Scenario Company" (Ideas While You Wait). Unfortunately, various visitors to his one-room office constantly interrupt his train of thought. ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Ted Healy
Votes: 159
31. Punch Drunks (1934)
G | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Sport
The stooges discover Curly's hidden talent for boxing, which appears only when he hears the tune "Pop Goes the Weasel". With the help of Larry's violin, Moe attempts to turn him into a champion.
Director: Lou Breslow | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Granger
Votes: 1,502
32. Men in Black (1934)
G | 19 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges become doctors at a large hospital where they disrupt patients and staff alike.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Carmen Andre
Votes: 1,472
33. Termites of 1938 (1938)
Not Rated | 18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are pest exterminators, mistakenly hired by a rich lady looking for an escort to a fancy society party. The stooges wreck the fancy mansion where the party is taking place and befuddle the guest of honor, an English Lord.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Beatrice Blinn
Votes: 554
34. Sappy Bull Fighters (1959)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Stranded in Mexico, the stooges need a job and an actress gets them one. They accidentally switch suitcases with her and go to retrieve it but are confronted by her violent, jealous husband. At the arena they perform a comedy bullfight.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Greta Thyssen
Votes: 294
35. Triple Crossed (1959)
16 min | Comedy, Short
Larry is a pet dealer who's seeing Moe's wife while at the same time trying to steal Joe's fiancée. When Moe's become suspicious, Larry attempts to frame Joe as the boyfriend. Larry's plan ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Angela Stevens
Votes: 214
36. Oil's Well That Ends Well (1958)
16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges need money for their father's operation, so they head for the country to prospect for uranium. Instead of uranium, they discover oil on their father's property and all their troubles are solved.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser
Votes: 345
37. Flying Saucer Daffy (1958)
Passed | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Joe accidentally takes a picture of a paper plate, which Moe and Larry submit to a magazine as an authentic picture of a flying saucer. Moe and Larry collect a big prize, but when the ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Gail Bonney
Votes: 279
38. Pies and Guys (1958)
17 min | Comedy, Short
A professor attempts to win a bet by turning the stooges into gentlemen. After some lessons in etiquette, the boys make their society debut at a fancy party. They soon revert to their old habits and a wild pie fight ensues.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Greta Thyssen
Votes: 254
39. Guns a Poppin! (1957)
17 min | Short, Comedy
Told in flashback, Moe is on trial for assaulting Larry and Joe. It seems that Moe was in debt and suffering a nervous breakdown so Larry and Joe took him to the country for rest and ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Frank Sully
Votes: 215
40. Horsing Around (1957)
16 min | Comedy, Short
A sequel (sort of) to "Hoofs and Goofs", The stooges are taking care of their sister Birdie who has been reincarnated as a horse. When they learn that her mate "Schnapps", a famous circus ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Tony the Horse
Votes: 229
41. Hoofs and Goofs (1957)
Passed | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Joe dreams that the stooge's sister Birdie has died and been reincarnated as a horse. The stooges take Birdie home but must conceal her from the snoopy landlord. They succeed, but more ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Benny Rubin
Votes: 287
42. Booty and the Beast (1953)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Kenneth MacDonald
Votes: 314
43. They Stooge to Conga (1943)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, War
The stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lloyd Bridges
Votes: 565
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